They Got Farm Boy'd!

Conversation overheard recently at an Ottawa area Farm Boy grocery store between two shelf stackers, somewhere around college or university age:

EMPLOYEE 1: Working sucks, doesn't it?

EMPLOYEE 2: Yep, it sure does. It's so boring, huh huh. They, like, pay us to stock shelves and stuff. How lame. We could totally be, like, Paris Hilton right now and, like, making a ton of money just from doing nothin'.

EMPLOYEE 1: If we were a chick.

EMPLOYEE 2: Yeah, if we were a chick.

EMPLOYEE 1: Hey, I have a really cool idea.

EMPLOYEE 2: What?

EMPLOYEE 1: Why don't we put up a posting on a Facebook group about all the cool stuff we wish we could do here. Like stealing stuff. Money, groceries, you name it.

EMPLOYEE 2: Heh, that'd be so radical.

EMPLOYEE 1: We could even use our real names.

EMPLOYEE 2: Yeah. Cool.

EMPLOYEE 1: And the best part of it all is that nobody would know all about it, because it's the Internet. And everybody knows that nobody reads the Internet.

EMPLOYEE 2: Heh, heh. That's right. Nobody reads the Internet. That'd be, like, so awesome.

Some time later, this shows up in the Ottawa Sun newspaper:

Several Farm Boy employees in Ottawa have been fired over the past week after the company learned of their postings on a popular Internet networking website.

The employees were dismissed from Farm Boy locations across the city after posting comments in the "I Got Farm Boy'd" group on the Facebook website. ...

On Friday, Devon Bourgeois was called into his store manger's office at the Kanata Farm Boy and shown copies of posts he had written Nov. 13.

"I particularly was confronted for, and terminated for, admission of theft, which, based on the posts I had written, was under a hypothetical topic known as 'Only at Farm Boy' had these situations occurred," he said.

"My post was taken to be literal and as a confession, which it never was."

Oops.

Not very smart, eh?

On the other hand: Can you imagine a society where Joe Q. Public is held responsible forever and ever for something they might have written on the Internet? You know, everyone messes up from time to time and says or does things they don't really mean.

I'm really hoping that Devon finds another job somewhere, assuming he learns from this. Nobody needs to have something like this sticking to them for the rest of their life.

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